UW C&C Presents: Defense Attorney Dean Strang

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Attorney Dean A. Strang, known from the popular Netflix documentary ‘Making a Murderer,’ will speak on Friday, Apr. 22 at 7 p.m. in the University of Wyoming College of Arts and Sciences auditorium.

Strang will participate in a moderated discussion regarding the systemic failures of the criminal justice system, as well as the broader implications of the Steven Avery case.

Tickets will be available online for presale on Mar. 14 with promo code ‘Spring Break.’ UW student tickets will be available on Mar. 21 and for the public beginning Mar. 28. Student tickets cost $10 with a valid UW student ID. Tickets for the public are $20. All tickets are available at the Wyoming Union information desk and Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts box office or by visiting www.uwyo.edu/finearts.

UW Concerts and Convocations sponsors this event.

Dean A. Strang is a lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin. He is best known for his work as one of Steven Avery’s trial lawyers, as well as for his first book, “Worse Than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror.” His work includes five years as Wisconsin’s first Federal Defender; shareholder in three of the state’s leading criminal defense firms (Hurley, Burish & Stanton, S.C., Fitzgeral & Strang, S.C., and Shellow, Shellow & Glynn, S.C.); and co-founder of StrangBradley, LLC. He is an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School, the University of Wisconsin Law School, and University of Wisconsin’s Division of Continuing Studeies. Strang is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on several charity boards, including the Wisconsin Innocence Project. His second book will be published in early 2018.

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